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witness Tie has been nineteen years an engineer and
a railroad tweBty-tw years. His train on saur-
day night was the No. 90 Montreai Express Whcn ne
on the train the baggage car mail car, Boston
messenger coach Springfield passenger COACH Spring
Held sleepng-car and Boston seepingcar. all as usual
The train was late account OF detention on the
Connecticut River road. 1t lett the Junction al Z'lo
a m instead of 1910 a m, He made up no time,
However between the junction and Woodstock bridge
He mt on the brakes at the approach to the bridge
and ran across il at the rate OF not more than eight
miles an hour. The brakes held harder than he in
tended them TO and the steam was shut on lie sald
/. was sitt uq in the drivers seat looking ahead.
The first warning had vas one stroke OF the Train
hell The locomotive was then ~ tine middle OF the
ir;nce and that was a signal to stop q1ckIy. There
was No barring at all. | Immediately put on the
automatic brakes and looked out OF the BACK WINDOW
M the cab saw the last sleepiDgcor 20 on the west
cad OF the bridge then the Springfield the
snrin ofed coach and the Boston coach The coupling
let yeen the Boston coach and the mail car broke.
men stopped the engine was on land SAFE and the
ran back to the mail car and met brakeman Parker
there | sent him back to the Junction Tor help.
Looking over the bank saw pair OF trucks On the
track, off which the car had been caITed Ihey Teie
under the first passenger coach, THINK or perhhps
under the second They were not from either seeper
They stood about two lengths back from the end OF
the bridge.
Running back to the engine got my fire shovel
an. lantern and hurried down the bank. The first
coach cooked il had struck the front right cor
and had then collapsed. There were flames IN the
back part OF the coach The right side Windows OF
with the help of the fireman and bacgage-msster took
out two meu aud two women We :hree worked AT the
first coach. No else was there that could See
We next got Conductor Sturtevant out OF the wladJw
He was crawling along through the wreck, getting
forward with his back on fire. Their were names al
around him. He three Windows from the iast' /
told him TO come on. He smashed the window and we
threw snow on him to quench the tire. He had 10
smash two more before could get hold OF him The
fireman got in the and helped him ont from ms de-
Next we got out man whose shouldeIs we're aafo,
hauling him through the windows. dragged nm
TO the bank. pulled his collar up ana lalu
him on pile OF snow. Then We carried Stu,'e
want TO Paine's farmhouse. Mr.. 1ewksbury had
era pled to window. however, and IN the
meantime we pulled him ont asi before n n sng n we,
from the time got down on the Ice think We so every
body who alive of that forward car There were
two dead women In IT, but we could reach them. The
smoke and flames drove us of. don't know whether
or the fire caught in the sleeping cafs from tne
when the relief train aterward no one IN me wreck
was alive The bridge caught fire from the tist Ioacn
WAS in paines M tho lime but heard the crash took
nine people West Hartford IN the mall car Ihey were
all unable 70 walk
DEAF Grinnell Of Burlington Medical College. was
then called as witness the wreck on special
| train at 9 a III Saturday morning. lie Ionnd
nine wounded people at Paine's and one at
West Hartford. There twelve patients nj Peases
Hotel at Hartford Dr. Grinncl offered in evidence the
list Of thrtynve injured already gwen IN InE ~
! He knew Of three more by hearsay H. Milari, Johh
Schulz and A. H. Nease OF Ihrtnon1ii VI nm ut ~
/ knew OF only thirtr-two dead bodies nearly
] dead
1t improbable that any one was burnt awe "ieIe
they recovered CONSCIOUSNESS they were shnpoalcu ny
hot afr and smoke before the flames reached them Dr
Grnne thought the stories about cries ana gfohns large
! ly imaginary. There body in The wtcck Mnlch
was entirely consumed as to he unrecoslHable mere
were probably bodies parts OF bodies IN the river
Frank H. Thrashcr fireman. OF 81 Adams, VI, was
called He heard the bell midway the bridge ana
looked up He the fall. one ny one Ihrlc
was no Jerk and much shock He went back on the
! bridge and looked down nj the wreck. Then he net
Pierce aud followed him down The bank lie goi n lHe
first car through a window. He first TOOK hold 81 "A
] nd Illel her loose
had been in seat grabbed her dress
The he had hold of cried " Don't tear my dress
He finally saved both them He also helped two women
out of the sleeping Both that car and the
Springfield sleeping burning. lie broke the
windows OF the springfield sleeping ear with an axe,
which found by. and Rescued one or TWO people
from it, The last car, the Boston sleeping car had sIucG
gers had all thrown together. In the third car he
pulled OF his mothers arms but could not re-
lease the mother. The fire broke out IN each OF me
| cars and burned too hercely 10 fight In
fifteen minutes everything was alamo. The hudEe
caught al the middle pier The Vina high and Tie
fire spread rapidly. The end fcN first The tracks
apparently in good order. The TRAIN nal gone on
the bridge smoothly at the rate OF eight miles an hour
Alfred = Robbins the express messenger, OF Mnnches
fer corroborated the foregoing testimony He IN the
baggage car and noted the snap OF the coupling some OF
his boxes thrown lie opened the SIDE door
and looked the wreck. He saw mans head ana
shoulders through OF the Windows His shoulders
we're abaze Robbins crossed the bridge meeting the
loose tricks and got down the side of the river
He helped out Of the second sleeping car The
fire caught HIM soon, however, and he had 10 stop